Puccini’s ‘E lucevan le stelle’ (And the stars were shining brightly) is one of the most heart-wrenching arias in the Italian tenor repertoire. Sung by the doomed painter Cavaradossi in the opera ...

The furthest-recorded dive by an emperor penguin was 1,854 feet off eastern Antarctica on July 19, 2006. The species also ...

and coats the bottoms of her feet in bright blue, green, yellow or purple. Then the squat northern rockhopper penguin walks a couple of times across an 8-by-10 canvas while a biologist showers her ...

Penguins were once much larger than today’s species. One species, Kumimanu biceae, that inhabited New Zealand between 55 and 60 million years ago stood about 6 feet (1.8 metres) tall.